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ImperialismThe policy in which stronger nations take over weaker onesEconomic: new markets, natural resourcesPolitical: gain colonies, power, statusMilitary: compete in arms race,powerBelief in racial/ cultural superiority of people of European descent (Anglo/Saxon)
Global ImperialismEurope: had colonies for centuries
Britain had the most colonies around the world, controlled about 25% of world’s land and people.
Other nations wanted pieces for themselves.
Economic Reasons
American farmers has produced a surplus of goods
Needed new markets to sell stuff
Needed raw materials for factories
Solution: foreign trade
Military Reasons Alfred Mahan
Wanted to build up American navy
Defend peacetime shipping lanes
Needed to establish naval bases in Pacific and Caribbean
U.S. became 3rd largest naval power
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Militarism
1.Glorification of the ideals of a professional military class
2. A policy in which military preparedness is of primary importance to a state
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Yellow Journalism
• Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers.
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World Power
• Need for new markets to sell goods• More land to get raw materials• Keep up with European Powers• Goals of leadership
Superiority
Some Americans combined thephilosophy of Social Darwinism(survivial of fittest) with free-market competition ( private ownership of business)
withracial superiority to justify
imperialism
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Social Darwinism
• The application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority.
Anti- ImperialismCost too much in military
protection
Dominated peoples didn’t have same
rights as American citizens
Some Americans saw imperialism as a threat to Anglo-Saxon culture
Hawaii’s Economy
75% of wealth from sugar plantations
Plantations owned by Americans
Labor imported from Japan/ China
Hawaii’s Economy
1875 no duty on Hawaiian sugar
1887 king forced to grant voting rights to only wealthy landowners
1887 U.S. gained rights to Pearl Harbor
Hawaii’s Economy
1890 McKinley Tariff eliminated the duty-free status of Hawaiian sugarHawaiian sugar had to compete with other sugar growers, especially CubaAnnexation of Hawaii would mean Hawaiian sugar would become duty-free
Queen Lili’uokalani
“The cause of Hawaiian independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.”
Deposing the Queen
Queen Lil wanted to:
end property qualifications for voting
Restore power to native Hawaiians
Deposing the Queen
The Americans sugar growers :
Organized a revolt against the Queen 1893
Queen Lil was arrested
Sanford Dole became the temporary president of Hawaii
“The New Temptation on the Mount: “ Behold all this I will give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” A “World- Wide Empire” including Hawaii and the Philippines, is offered on the horizon.
Republic of HawaiiPres. Cleveland wanted the queen restored to power.
Dole refused to give up power.
Cleveland recognized the Republic of Hawaii, but refused to annex Hawaii.
1897 Pres. McKinley made Hawaii an American territory.
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To Hell with SpainRemember the Maine
• At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor
• 268 men were killed, shocking the American population
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William McKinley, Jr. (1843-1901)
• 25th President• Wanted to avoid war in
Cuba• Yellow journalism and
public supported war• In April 1898, President
McKinley abandoned his failed diplomatic efforts and asked Congress for permission to intervene in Cuba.
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Theodore Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
• “I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one”
• First Volunteer Cavalry, nicknamed the "Rough Riders.“
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Commodore George Dewey
• May 1, 1899— Commodore Dewey and his Asiatic Squadron defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay
• During and after the war, George Dewey became one of the war's most celebrated heroes
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William Randolph Hearst
• Newspaper publisher and leading example of yellow journalism
• New York Journal started a public hysteria for war with Spain by publishing incendiary articles and illustrations
• Hearst once said "You provide the pictures and I'll provide the war."
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General Weyler “The Butcher”
• In 1896, the Spanish sent "The Butcher," to Cuba
• To prevent the insurrectos– Weyler built
concentration camps in which he imprisoned a large portion of the population
• Under the harsh and unsanitary conditions in the concentration camps, – Cuban prisoners died
rapidly, especially from disease
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Events-Timeline
1895: Cuban nationalists revolt against Spanish rule
1896: Spanish General Weyler (the "Butcher") comes to Cuba.
1897: Spain recalls Weyler Early 1898: USS Maine sent to Cuba February 9, 1898: Hearst publishes
Dupuy du Lome's letter insulting McKinley.
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Sensational Journalism or Yellow JournalismActivity
• Screaming newspaper headlines about the situation in Cuba in the 1890s helped fan the flames of war by influencing public opinion in the United States
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Events-Timeline February 15, 1898: Sinking of the USS
Maine February 25, 1898: Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt cables Commodore Dewey with plan: attack the Philippines if war with Spain breaks out
April 11, 1898: McKinley approves war with Spain
April 24, 1898: Spain declares war on the US
April 25, 1898: US declares war on Spain
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Events-Timeline May 1, 1898: Battle of Manila Bay
(Philippines) May, 1898: July 1, 1898: San Juan Hill
taken by "Rough Riders" July 3, 1898: Battle of Santiago - Spain's
Caribbean fleet destroyed. July 7, 1898: Hawaii annexed July 17, 1898: City of Santiago surrenders
to General William Shafter August 12, 1898: Spain signs armistice August 13, 1898: US troops capture Manila
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Events-Timeline December 10, 1898: Treaty of Paris signed -
US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines. January 23, 1899: Philippines declares
itself an independent republic - Led by Emilio Auginaldo, the self-declared Filipino government fights a guerilla war against the US that lasts longer than the Spanish-American War itself.
February 6, 1899: the Treaty of Paris passes in the Senate
1900: Foraker Act - Some self-government allowed in Puerto Rico.
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Events-Timeline March 1901: Emilio Auginaldo captured. 1901: Platt Amendment-Cuban government
could not enter any foreign agreement, allows two naval bases in Cuba and U.S can intervene when necessary
1902: US withdraws from Cuba 1917: Puerto Ricans given US citizenship